Luna Tail

Yup yup! I’m all dressed up! Finally back in my wizard robes. Oh, that muggle clothes, is just not as fun. The robes are comfy and snuggly and they are keeping me very warm. The only part I don’t like is the tie. Can I do away with the tie? I will admit, men have it pretty badly. The nylons don’t even seem as bad as this darn tie.

My robes are here! My robes are here!

Yes, I will admit it, I doubted they’d come by Halloween. You just never know when you paypal $100 to a person on the web, no ebay guarantees, no nothing, if that person will come through or not. However, she did, and they are beautiful! I wish I could rate her somewhere, to say she did an excellent job and to recommend her.

Her URL is here: Wizarding School Robes.

And she does a great job. I have a Ravenclaw patch, but I don’t know if I trust myself to sew it onto the robes. We’ll have to see how brave I am this weekend. Or if maybe Aaron will, or Aaron’s sister. Hrm.

So, I’ll be a decked out Ravenclaw for Halloween, and for the premier. We have midnight tickets for Goblet of Fire. Woo woo! I’m going to be so dead tired on that Friday, I have not stayed up to 3am for probably 15 years.

The first of my scarves is done. This is a template scarf, for Lucy. Lucy is a Slitheryn. She is cunning and it just fits her!

I plan on gathering some herbs for the scarves, to see how that goes too. And I’ve ordered all the colors. However, the yellow is severely backordered, so no Gryffindor or Hufflepuff for a while. Ugh. Only Ravenclaw and Slitheryn.

So this is what I’ll need, if I call or email a place to see what they have in stock, for Encore DK:

sienna (#0999)
sunny (#1382)
hunter (#0204)
grey (#0194)
navy (#0848)
black (#0217)

Edit:
And okay, I made an order. One of each skein. The cool thing is, this place lists color 1014, butternut, as a DK color. Now I haven’t seen 1014 any other place. And it’s $2.88 per skien. And, they will check their stock and notify me of the total price, and then I can pay through paypal. We’ll see how it goes. I haven’t paid anything yet, which is really nice.
The place:
http://www.yarnups.com

This looks like a nice yarn.. all acrylic. Hrm.
Lane Borgosesia Caprice
Hrmm.. that is a plymouth yarn:
Lane Cervinia Caprice. I don’t know why the name is different.

Okay, I need to remember what colors to use for HP Scarves, and I always forget and have to go look them up. As based on the atypically.net pattern.

I prefer to use Encore. For a full-length people scarf, I’ll use worsted weight. But for the mini dog scarves, I think I’ll prefer DK. Though I haven’t been able to actually knit one in DK yet, because no one has the darn colors I want! Ugh. So here’ I’ll post the colors I want, as well as the places that sell them.

Patternworks sucked. They sent me a skein of sienna DK, but the yellow was backordered. They didn’t, however, tell me that when I originally asked them about the ship date. Made me quite mad.

Anyhoo, the colors are as follows.

WORSTED:
Gryffindor - burnt sienna (#0999) and butternut (#1014)
Slytherin - hunter (#0204) and grey frost (#0194)
Film Ravenclaw - navy (#0848) and grey frost (#0194)
Hufflepuff - black (#0217) and butternut (#1014)

DK:
Gryffindor - sienna (#0999) and sunny (#1382)
Slytherin - hunter (#0204) and grey (#0194)
Film Ravenclaw - navy (#0848) and grey (#0194)
Hufflepuff - black (#0217) and sunny (#1382)

I have NOT seen the sunny in person, local yarn store didn’t have it, and patterworks.com had it backordered. I hope it looks good. The DK does not seem to come in butternut, the only yellow is sunny. The orange looks too orange.

Patternworks does have decent color cards though:
Encore Worsted
Encore DK